Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the unpredictable nature of death. ... Modern writers not only removed the criticized the narrow- minded view points society associates with any fictional novel by modifying the content in their writing, but new innovations and creativity the writing included transformed the act of reading an...

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